Spider Basics
This is the scientific genus name for the Golden Silk Orb Weaver Spider
What is Nephilia?
Golden Silk Orb Weavers are primarily found on these continents.
Is it Asia, Australia, and America?
The silk of the Golden Silk Orb-Weaver spider is known for this distinctive color.
What is golden or yellow?
Golden Silk Orb-Weavers typically eat insects, and this type of animal occasionally gets caught in the webs.
Is it small birds?
Golden Silk Orb-Weavers are sometimes referred to as ẅriting spiders" because they do this on their webs.
Does it create unique zigzag patterns?
Golden Silk Orb-Weavers belong to this order of arachnids.
What is Araneae?
These spiders prefer to build webs in this environment.
What are forests or wooded areas?
This is the primary purpose of the golden silk in their webs.
These spiders use this technique to subdue their prey once it is caught in the webs.
Does it start wrapping it in silk?
True or False: Golden Silk Orb-Weaver is dangerous to humans and should be avoided.
Is it False?
Female Golden Silk Orb-Weaver are much larger than males, a characteristic known by the term?
What is sexual dimorphism?
True or False: Golden silk Orb Weavers are exclusively found in tropical regions.
False
Golden Silk Orb-Weavers are known for producing some of the strongest silk in the animal kingdom, second only to this spider.
Is it Darwinś's bark spider?
Their diet helps control the population of this kind of pest or crop-eating insects.
What are agricultural pests or crop-eating insects?
This unique use of Golden Silk Orb-Weaver silk was experimented with in the fashion industry.
Is it creating textiles like silk scarves?
Golden Orb Silk Weavers have this many legs.
Is the number Eight?
Golden Silk Orb-Weavers thrive in environments with this kind of climate.
What is warm or humid?
The web of a Golden Silk Orb-Weaver can reach this oppressive diameter in feet.
Is it up to 6 feet?
Golden Silk Orb-Weaver usually feeds during this time of day.
When is it nighttime and nocturnally?
The Golden Silk Orb-Weaver has been observed using this strategy to avoid predators.
Is it dropping from it webs to the ground?
In addition to their legs, these spiders have this number of eyes.
Is it Eight?
These spiders are often found in these arenas within a first, where the sunlight enhances their golden silks.
What are open clearings or forest edges?
Some researchers are studying golden Sil Orb-Wevers silk for potential use in this type of advanced technology.
What is biomedicine or materials science?
This feature allows Golden Silk Orb-Weavers to break down prey outside their bodies.
What is external digestion (injecting Enzymes)?
This ancient culture referenced the Golden Silk Orb-Weaver in their myths or textile practices.
What are the indigenous cultures of Southeast Asia or the South Pacific?